DOE Scientists Contribute to 2007 Nobel Peace Prize
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Credit: NOAA Poster,
Will von Dauster
The 2007 Nobel Peace Prize reflects an importance of climate change science, which, while not quite meeting the criteria for inclusion in DOE R&D Accomplishments, is extremely noteworthy and is a credit to DOE science.
The United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize "for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change". Department of Energy (DOE) researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) contributed to this achievement. 'Tom Wilbanks, David Greene, Paul Hanson, Virginia Dale and Gregg Marland contributed to several reports of IPCC's four assessments. Wilbanks was a coordinating lead author of a chapter in the IPCC Fourth Assessment report on impacts, adaptation and vulnerabilities. Greene was a lead author for the "Transport" chapter of the IPCC Fourth Assessment mitigation report. Marland was a lead author of one of the first chapters on land use change and forestry and contributor to chapters for the panel's first three assessments.
Cheetah, the IBM high-performance computing system at the National Center for Computational Sciences, a Department of Energy user facility at ORNL, provided more than one-third of the simulations of Earth's past, present and future climate states for the joint DOE-National Science Foundation contribution to the first report of IPCC's Fourth Assessment, issued in 2007. David Erickson and John Drake were ORNL leaders of IPCC simulations on Cheetah in 2005.'
Resources with Additional Information
Additional information about climate change is available in DOE documents and on the Web.
Documents:
Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide and the Global Carbon Cycle: The Key Uncertainties, DOE Technical Report, December 1987
International Impacts of Global Climate Change: Testimony to House Appropriations Subcommittee on Foreign Operations, Export Financing and Related Programs, DOE Technical Report, February 1989
Formulating Energy Policies Related to Fossil Fuel Use: Critical Uncertainties in the Global Carbon Cycle, DOE Technical Report, February 1990
Global Climate Change: Some Implications, Opportunities, and Challenges for US Forestry, DOE Technical Report, June 1991
Assessing Impacts of Climate Change on Forests: The State of Biological Modeling, DOE Technical Report, April 1993
Historic Patterns of CO2 Emissions from Fossil Fuels: Implications for Stabilization of Emissions, DOE Technical Report, June 1994
Integrated Assessment and the Relation Between Land-Use Change and Climate Change, DOE Technical Report, October 1994
CO2 Emission Calculations and Trends, DOE Technical Report, June 1995
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